Delight of Being Alone

Question 1

This poem can be linked with Humming-bird and the theme of solitude. Lawrence craves nothing more than absolute solitude from all other beings. Repetition to prove point

Answer 1

I know no greater delight than the sheer delight of being alone.

Question 2

He envies the moon, in the sky alone uninterrupted by mankind. Wishes for that isolation. Personifies the moon

Answer 2

the delicious pleasure of the moon

that she has in travelling by herself

Question 3

Enjambment used to highlight the loneliness of this tree. This tree and its loneliness is to be celebrated

Answer 3

the splendid growing of an ash-tree

alone

Question 4

Alliteration of the tree. He wishes to be it. Personified as it hums, something people do when they are happy and satisfied. Remote from society in the country. Appeals to hearing

Answer 4

on a hill in the north, humming in the wind